International
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From Village Magazine Mar-APR 2022
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Ukraine
Ukraine: Ireland to Russia’s UK Fragile, vibrant, modern Ukraine is being overrun by 190,000 Russian troops, driven by an autocrat frustrated at the loss of its one-time sphere. By Michael Smith. Ukraine Ukraine may have been a backwater until recently but it is the second biggest country in Europe (after Russia of […]
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OHN WATERS AND GEMMA O’DOHERTY
Blessed with extraordinary articulacy they squander it on vitriol and abuse of the most vulnerable and minorities
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Nothing changes in Gaza
Memories of hell on earth with its resilient, generous people
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Campaign-fundraising rules were so loose in the late 1950s that it was easy for Joe Kennedy to derive a coach and horses through them.
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Dag Hammarskjold
The youngest and best UN Secretary General, 60 years after his assassination. By Chay Bowes Dag Hammarskjold was the second ever, and some say the greatest, Secretary General of the UN. When he died sixty years ago this year, President John F Kennedy suggested that Hammarskjold had been “the greatest statesman of our century”. At […]
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Bojo as Llo-geo
Boris Johnson is uncannily similar to dodgy David Lloyd George who won the First World War; except in dynamism, and greatness.